From grant at mclean.net.nz Sun Oct 2 15:41:59 2005
From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean)
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 11:41:59 +1300
Subject: [Wellington-pm] Meeting next Monday
Message-ID: <1128292919.24623.13.camel@localhost>
Hi Mongers
Just a quick reminder that the next meeting of Wellington Perl Mongers
is Monday October 10th:
6:00pm Monday 10 October 2005
Level 2, Eagle Technology House
150 Willis Street
Wellington
http://wellington.pm.org/
The meeting theme is revision control systems and four (relatively
short) talks will look at alternatives to CVS:
* Grant McLean - Subversion
* Sam Vilain - SVK, SVL
* Geoff Cant - Darcs
* Martin Langhoff - Git
Bring a friend. See you there.
Regards
Grant
From grant at mclean.net.nz Sun Oct 2 15:50:54 2005
From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean)
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 11:50:54 +1300
Subject: [Wellington-pm] New book in the library
Message-ID: <1128293454.24623.23.camel@localhost>
Hi again Mongers
I forgot to mention that the nice folks at O'Reilly have sent us a copy
of:
Learning Perl Objects, References, and Modules
By Randal L. Schwartz
With Tom Phoenix
First Edition June 2003
ISBN: 0-596-00478-8
224 pages
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lrnperlorm/
If you missed the Introduction to Object Oriented Perl talk in May then
this would be a good place to start. At only 224 pages, it's not at all
intimidating.
We're under no obligation to post a review of this one, so don't be put
off by that (although of course I'd be delighted if someone did want to
review it).
Reply direct to me if you want to borrow it.
Cheers
Grant
From grant at mclean.net.nz Wed Oct 5 12:48:53 2005
From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean)
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 08:48:53 +1300
Subject: [Wellington-pm] [Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program,
October 5]
Message-ID: <1128541733.12165.2.camel@localhost>
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> From: Marsee Henon
> Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, October 5
> Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 12:29:04 -0700
> ================================================================
> O'Reilly News for User Group Members
> October 5, 2005
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> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Book News
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> -Ambient Findability
> -Halo 2 Hacks
> -Cult of iPod
> -Windows Server 2003 Network Administration
> -Prefactoring
> -Degunking Windows, Second Edition
> -eBay: The Missing Manual
> -iPod Shuffle Fan Book
> -Behind Closed Doors
> -Security and Usability
> -iLife: The Missing Manual
> -Digital Photography Pocket Guide, 3rd Edition
> -Oracle PL/SQL Programming, 4th Edition
> -TCP/IP Guide
> -Cisco IOS in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Upcoming Events
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> -Stephen Teilhet ("C# Cookbook" and "Subclassing and Hooking with
> Visual Basic") at Compuware OJ.X, Detroit, MI--October 6
> -"The Art of Project Management" Tour, Boston, NYC, and
> Pittsburgh--October 11-19
> -O'Reilly Authors at Macromedia Max, Anaheim, CA--October 16-19
> -Steven Feuerstein's Oracle PL/SQL Programming Conference,
> Chicago, IL--November 2-3
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Conference News
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> -ETel Registration Now Open
> -Registration is Open for EuroOSCON
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> News
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> -Tim O'Reilly in the News
> -What Is Web 2.0?
> -Beta Broadcast 002: Data for Web 2.0
> -What Is Asterisk?
> -Marking up your Designs with HTMLstamps
> Opera Goes Free Without Ads
> -User Group Members receive a special 50% discount Learning
> Lab Courses
> -Perlcast Interviews Jesse Vincent, author of "RT Essentials"
> -What Is Free Software?
> -Installing Debian
> -Backward Compatibility? We've Heard of It
> -Using FreeBSD's ACLs
> -How to Set Up Backup 3 and Save Your Data
> -Installing Fink on Mac OS X
> -What Is ASP.NET?
> -Using Windows Explorer with Alternate Credentials
> -What Is C#?
> -What Is Quartz?
> -What Is Hibernate?
> -Jack Herrington ("Podcasting Hacks") on the User Group Report
> -Nate Howard: Midwestern Photographer in Iraq
> -Julian Kwasneski: Inside Game Audio
> -Make your own "PowerSquid"
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> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2005/09/23/distributing-the-future.html
>
>
> ***What Is Asterisk?
> Asterisk is an open source PBX (private branch exchange) that provides
> all the functionality of high-end business telephone systems, and much
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> provides an overview of its feature set and platform capabilities.
> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2005/09/30/what-is-asterisk.html
>
>
> ***Marking up your Designs with HTMLstamps
> Alex shows you how to bridge the gap between Website designs
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> http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/09/22/marking-up-your-designs-with-htmlstamps/
>
>
> ***Opera goes free without ads
> It's finally happened. Opera, the 3rd player in the browser market
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>
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> Open Source
> ---------------------
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>
>
> ***What Is Free Software?
> Today, free software is a large body of high-quality code on which much
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>
>
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>
>
> ***Backward Compatibility? We've Heard of It
> PHP 5's release has sparked a PR disaster for the popular open source
> programming language because of some significant backwards compatibility
> issues.
> http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/09/15/backward-compatibility-weve-heard-of-it/
>
>
> ***Using FreeBSD's ACLs
> The standard Unix permissions scheme works fine if you have simple
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> FreeBSD's Access Control Lists give you more control over who can access
> files and directories. Dru Lavigne explains how to enable, understand,
> and use them appropriately.
> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/09/22/FreeBSD_Basics.html
>
> ---------------------
> Mac
> ---------------------
> ***How to Set Up Backup 3 and Save Your Data
> Combined with a hefty 1GB of online storage, Backup 3 provides .Mac
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> http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/09/23/backup3.html
>
>
> ***Installing Fink on Mac OS X
> The Fink project aims to port Unix software to Mac OS X and make it easy
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> http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/09/30/fink.html
>
> ---------------------
> Windows/.NET
> ---------------------
> ***What Is ASP.NET?
> Part of the .NET Framework, ASP.NET allows developers to build dynamic
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> Wei-Meng Lee provides a look under the ASP.NET hood, describing how it
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> http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2005/09/19/what-is-asp-net.html
>
>
> ***Using Windows Explorer with Alternate Credentials
> Running Windows using administrator credentials can be hazardous to the
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> while running alternate credentials.
> http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/09/20/using-windows-explorer-with-alternate-credentials.html
>
>
> ***What Is C#?
> Jesse Liberty reveals this little-understood secret: C# is really one of
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> resources for coding in C#. Jesse is the author of "Programming C#, 4th
> Edition."
> http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2005/10/03/what-is-csharp.html
>
> ---------------------
> Java
> ---------------------
> ***What Is Quartz?
> Java programmers: if you've ever needed an application to perform a task
> at a specific time, automatically, Chuck Cavaness suggests you check out
> the Quartz Scheduler. Cavaness looks at this open source job-scheduling
> framework, explains where to get it, how it works, and reviews its
> feature set.
> http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2005/09/28/what-is-quartz.html
>
>
> ***What Is Hibernate?
> Hibernate is a free open source Java package that makes it easy to work
> with relational databases. James Elliott describes the "enlightened
> laziness" that resulted in the development of Hibernate, how it works,
> and when it makes good sense to use it in your projects. James is the
> author of "Hibernate: A Developer's Notebook."
> http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2005/09/21/what-is-hibernate.html
>
> ---------------------
> Digital Media
> ---------------------
> ***Jack Herrington ("Podcasting Hacks") interviewed on the
> User Group Report on The MUG Center.
> http://www.mugcenter.com/usergroupreport/2005/534.html
> (You can also subscribe to this Podcast through iTunes.)
>
>
> ***Nate Howard: Midwestern Photographer in Iraq
> A photojournalist from Rochester, Minnesota is assigned to cover a local
> transportation unit on duty in Iraq. The images that Nate Howard
> returned with document the Iraqi people and American soldiers from a
> compassionate point of view.
> http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2005/09/28/featured.html
>
>
> ***Julian Kwasneski: Inside Game Audio
> If you've played Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, Indiana Jones, James
> Bond, or any number of NBA, NFL, PGA, or NCCA console games, you've
> likely heard the music and sound effects of Bay Area Sound. Cofounder
> Julian Kwasneski takes us inside the process of optimizing audio for
> games, then shares five MP3s.
> http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2005/09/21/bas-kwasneski-game-audio.html
>
> ---------------------
> MAKE
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> Have you seen the "PowerSquid" on ThinkGeek? It's a very cool,
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> adapters. The Make team was going to order one, but they were out of
> stock and so they made their own--with a total of eight outlets--for
> almost half the price. Here's the simple cheap version.
> http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/09/how_to_make_your_own_powersqui.html
>
>
> Try a Sample Project from MAKE:
> http://makezine.com/samples/
>
> MAKE Show Archive:
> http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/make_podcast/
>
>
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From grant at mclean.net.nz Sun Oct 9 14:01:08 2005
From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean)
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:01:08 +1300
Subject: [Wellington-pm] Reminder: Meeting tonight
Message-ID: <1128891668.5982.1.camel@localhost>
Hi Mongers
Wellington Perl Mongers meeting is this evening:
6:00pm Monday 10 October 2005
Level 2, Eagle Technology House
150 Willis Street
Wellington
http://wellington.pm.org/
The meeting theme is revision control systems and four (relatively
short) talks will look at alternatives to CVS:
* Grant McLean - Subversion
* Sam Vilain - SVK, SVL
* Geoff Cant - Darcs
* Martin Langhoff - Git
Bring a friend. See you there.
Regards
Grant
From grant at mclean.net.nz Mon Oct 10 14:14:16 2005
From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean)
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 10:14:16 +1300
Subject: [Wellington-pm] Meeting Roundup
Message-ID: <1128978856.3497.14.camel@localhost>
Hi Mongers
Well last night's speakers certainly broke all records for overrunning
the allocated timeslots (OK, so I set a bad precedent), but I think we'd
all agree it was an interesting and informative (not to mention lively)
session.
There are slides and links up in the archive section of the web site:
http://wellington.pm.org/archive/
(the archived files even include the contents of untitled.txt salvaged
this morning from Martin's tmp directory).
The next meeting will be on November 14th. Matt Hunt has graciously
stepped forward and volunteered to do a presentation on debugging which
means we have one more slot to fill - volunteers please.
Last night's speakers have claimed their free tee shirts from my OSCON
swag bag. There are only a couple of shirts left, so if you don't
volunteer to speak in November you'll most likely miss out.
Regards
Grant
From grant at mclean.net.nz Wed Oct 19 13:39:59 2005
From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean)
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 09:39:59 +1300
Subject: [Wellington-pm] Meeting Roundup
In-Reply-To: <1128978856.3497.14.camel@localhost>
References: <1128978856.3497.14.camel@localhost>
Message-ID: <1129754399.23834.15.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 10:14 +1300, Grant McLean wrote:
> The next meeting will be on November 14th. Matt Hunt has graciously
> stepped forward and volunteered to do a presentation on debugging.
And Andrew Ruthven has equally graciously volunteered to tell us about
Catalyst - the Perl web development framework which competes
head-to-head with Ruby on Rails.
We will need speakers for future meetings so please have a think about
what you could present on. Some of the best talks have been from people
who chose a topic they knew nothing about but wanted to learn. A
looming deadline can be a powerful motivator :-)
Cheers
Grant
From matt at catalyst.net.nz Mon Oct 24 13:01:22 2005
From: matt at catalyst.net.nz (Matthew Hunt)
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 09:01:22 +1300
Subject: [Wellington-pm] Decomposing Parrot
Message-ID: <435D3D92.8010807@catalyst.net.nz>
An interesting article from Dan Sugalski about his reasons for leaving
the Parrot project and about the way the project went for him:
http://www.sidhe.org/~dan/blog/archives/000435.html
Matt.
--
Matthew Hunt
From jarich at perltraining.com.au Mon Oct 24 18:50:10 2005
From: jarich at perltraining.com.au (Jacinta Richardson)
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 11:50:10 +1000
Subject: [Wellington-pm] OSDC 2005 open for registrations
Message-ID: <435D8F52.7090701@perltraining.com.au>
G'day everyone,
This is a quick note to let you know that registrations for Australia?s
second Open Source Developers? Conference are now open. Last year?s
conference was a huge hit with 60 high quality talks running in three
streams over three days. If you were not able to join us last year
make sure you don?t miss out this year!
The conference is running from Monday 5th ? Wednesday 7th December 2005.
If you register before Sunday 30th October you will receive a conference
t-shirt and a $50 discount.
You can register at http://www.osdc.com.au/registration/index.html
OSDC is a grass roots-style conference designed by developers for
developers, covering open source languages, tools, libraries, operating
systems, licences and business models. We?re booking 3 lecture rooms
each day for the 3 days to hold a new set 60 different talks.
Talks topics range from the safety of Perl?s Safe.pm, to rapid game
development in Python, to using PHP for unorthodox applications, to
utilizing Java?s Groovy in your next application. We also have talks on
conference skills, database integration, digital forensics, Gumstix and
Nagios. You can find the full list of speakers and talk titles at
http://osdc2005.cgpublisher.com/session_descriptions.html
Because there are so many good talks, you can be certain that there
will be something that interests you in every talk session.
Each day will start with a keynote by our excellent keynote speakers.
These include Damian Conway, Jonathan Oxer, Richard Farnsworth (from the
Australian Synchrotron) and Anthony Baxter. The rest of the day will be
filled with up to 5 hours of talks and plentiful food breaks. Our
catering choices should result in you being extraordinarily well fed
throughout the days of the conference.
There will also be several BOFs (yet to be organised), lots of
opportunities to socialise, a semi-formal dinner, a partners?
programme and other usual conference stuff.
If you have any other questions about what is happening, please don?t
hesitate to ask: osdc-help at osdc.com.au
All the very best,
Jacinta
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From enkidu at cliffp.com Mon Oct 24 23:39:29 2005
From: enkidu at cliffp.com (Cliff Pratt)
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:39:29 +1300
Subject: [Wellington-pm] Decomposing Parrot
In-Reply-To: <435D3D92.8010807@catalyst.net.nz>
References: <435D3D92.8010807@catalyst.net.nz>
Message-ID: <435DD321.4000201@cliffp.com>
Matthew Hunt wrote:
> An interesting article from Dan Sugalski about his reasons for leaving
> the Parrot project and about the way the project went for him:
>
> http://www.sidhe.org/~dan/blog/archives/000435.html
>
Must be the bird flu.
Cheers,
Cliff
From grant at mclean.net.nz Wed Oct 26 01:08:09 2005
From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean)
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 21:08:09 +1300
Subject: [Wellington-pm] [Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program,
October 25]
Message-ID: <1130314089.4475.1.camel@localhost>
-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Marsee Henon
> Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, October 25
> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 18:16:34 -0700
>
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> -Practical Development Environments
> -Twisted Network Programming Essentials
> -FileMaker Pro 8: The Missing Manual
> -Beyond Java
> -My Job Went to India
> -Open Sources 2.0
> -Palm and Treo Hacks
> -Programming Windows Presentation Foundation
> -Asterisk: The Future of Telephony
> -iWork '05: The Missing Manual
> -Build Your Own Standards Compliant Website Using Dreamweaver 8
> -Yahoo! Hacks
> -BlackBerry Hacks
> -JBoss at Work: A Practical Guide
> -Essential PHP Security
> -PHP in a Nutshell
> -Internet Forensics
> -Producing Open Source Software
> -Retro Gaming Hacks
> -Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual
> -Essential SNMP, 2nd Edition
> -PHPUnit Pocket Guide
> -Visual Basic 2005 Jumpstart
> -Linux Desktop Pocket Guide
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
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> -Tom Limoncelli ("Time Management for System Administrators"),
> New York City BSD User Group, New York, NY--November 2
> -Jack Herrington ("Podcasting Hacks"), NCMUG, Rohnert Park, CA--
> November 15
> -Tom Limoncelli ("Time Management for System Administrators") at the
> Boston Linux & Unix User Group, Boston, MA--November 16
> -Sinan Si Alhir ("UML in a Nutshell") at the MilwaukeeSPIN Group,
> Milwaukee, WI--November 17
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> -The Real Problem with Textbooks: A SafariU Editorial
> -O'Reilly Authors on the Air
> -Encrypting Voice: An Interview with Phil Zimmermann
> -Dreamweaver 8 Does Standards
> -My Top 10 CSS Tricks
> -User Group Members receive a special 50% discount on Learning
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> -EuroOSCON--Doctorow on Europe's Coming Broadcast Flag
> -What Is Ruby on Rails?
> -An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
> -TextEdit's Default Format: RTF... Why?
> -Security Myths: The Perimeter Is Everything
> -C#: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: An Interview with
> Anders Hejlsberg, Part 1
> -Moving Past Java: An Interview with Bruce Tate
> Diagnostic Tests with Ant
> -Canon 5D: First Impressions
> -Hacking Your Car: How to Get Clean Audio and Video Signals into
> Your Car
> -iPod Boxes into Art
> -Kid-Tested Haunted House Tricks
>
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> Author Tom Limoncelli discusses techniques he's developed over the last
> fifteen years including how to find time to get projects done, the best
> way to manage interruptions from users, open source tools for tracking
> requests, and how to turn chaos into free time.
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> ***Jack Herrington ("Podcasting Hacks"), NCMUG, Rohnert Park,
> CA--November 15
> Jack will walk us through the basics of podcasting, starting with audio
> recording using a variety of equipment that he will bring along. He also
> covers multi-track editing and mixdown with Audacity, conversion to MP3,
> and uploading to a podcasting enabled blog that integrates into iTunes.
> http://www.ncmug.org/events.html#nov
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> ***Tom Limoncelli ("Time Management for System Administrators") at the
> Boston Linux & Unix User Group, Boston, MA--November 16
> Tom discusses techniques he's developed over the last fifteen years
> including how to find time to get projects done, the best way to manage
> interruptions from users, open source tools for tracking requests, and
> how to turn chaos into free time.
> http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2005-nov
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> ***Sinan Si Alhir ("UML in a Nutshell") at the MilwaukeeSPIN Group,
> Milwaukee, WI--November 17
> Author Sinan Si Alhir presents "The Art of Agility: Project Management
> and Software Development" at a meeting of the Milwaukee Software Process
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> ***The Real Problem with Textbooks: A SafariU Editorial
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> ***Encrypting Voice: An Interview with Phil Zimmermann
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> of creating powerful encryption for VoIP, among other issues. Phil will
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> the product's evolution, and shows how to set up Dreamweaver 8 for
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> http://www.sitepoint.com/article/dreamweaver-8-standards
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> ***My Top 10 CSS Tricks
> For years, designers have manipulated CSS to meet their needs. Now
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> ***EuroOSCON--Doctorow on Europe's Coming Broadcast Flag
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> midst of a global attack on free software. A global attack that is
> supposed to uphold copyright, but that has no nexus with what copyright
> actually does." At the heart of this attack, asserts Cory, is the DRM
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> ***What Is Ruby on Rails?
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> difficult to discern the steak beneath the sizzle. Curt Hibbs walks
> through the features and pieces of Ruby on Rails to show how it fits
> together and where its big benefits come from.
> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/10/13/what_is_rails.html
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> Mac
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> ***An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
> Have you ever thought about using an iSight to take and classify images,
> such as those of a user sitting at the iMac? We have. And while we're
> working on that tutorial, we thought it might be a good idea to first
> publish a background piece on artificial intelligence.
> http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/10/21/artificial-intelligence.html
>
>
> ***TextEdit's Default Format: RTF...Why?
> Rich Text Format (.rtf) is the default choice for Mac OS X's TextEdit.
> Have you ever wondered why? Giles Turnbull takes a look at the RTF spec
> and discusses its strengths and shortcomings...and possibly uncovers
> why Apple chose it as the default for text processing.
> http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/10/18/rtf.html
>
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> Windows/.NET
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> ***Security Myths: The Perimeter Is Everything
> Is the perimeter the be-all and end-all of network defense? Mitch
> Tulloch, author of Windows Server Hacks, takes a look at whether it's
> time to kill the myth that perimeter defense is everything.
> http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/10/18/security-myths-the-perimeter-is-everything.html
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> ***C#: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: An Interview with Anders
> Hejlsberg, Part 1
> Anders Hejlsberg, in charge of the ongoing development of the C#
> programming language for Microsoft, talks about the past, present, and
> future of C#. Among other topics, he covers the implementation of C#
> generics (compared to Java), nullable types, and how language integrated
> query is implemented.
> http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2005/10/17/interview-with-anders-hejlsberg.html
>
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> Java
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> ***Moving Past Java: An Interview with Bruce Tate
> WebServicesSummit.com recently interviewed Bruce Tate about the future
> of Java and web development. Bruce discusses scalable enterprise
> applications, database-enabled applications, AJAX, and lightweight
> solutions for web development, while questioning whether Java is still a
> technology for the masses. Bruce is the author of the newly released
> "Beyond Java."
> http://www.webservicessummit.com/Articles/MovingPastJava.htm
>
>
> ***Diagnostic Tests with Ant
> Determining what's gone wrong with your software--source or binary--in a
> remote location is no simple task. Before taking a call and walking the
> user through error-prone troubleshooting, why not collect information
> about the user's system and the application files? Koen Vervloesem shows
> how you can do this with Ant.
> http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2005/10/12/diagnostic-tests-with-ant.html
>
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> Digital Media
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> ***Canon 5D: First Impressions
> The first thing that's noticeable about the EOS 5D is that it is a
> full-frame camera. I took a shot out of my hotel window with an EF 24-70
> L zoom lens at 24mm. My reaction was, "So that's where my wide-angle has
> been hiding all these years." James Duncan Davidson reports on the Canon
> 5D after his first assignment with it.
> http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2005/10/13/canon-5d.html
>
>
> ***Hacking Your Car: How to Get Clean Audio and Video Signals into
> Your Car
> In the living room, red, white, and yellow RCA jacks are the universal
> standard for input. Wouldn't it be nice if car manufacturers did the
> same and put these jacks in your car? Damien Stolarz thinks so, and
> shows you how to hack your ride to get a clean audio and video signal
> into your car. Damien is the author of "Car PC Hacks."
> http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2005/10/05/audio-video-hack-for-your-car.html
>
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> MAKE
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> ***iPod Boxes into Art
> There are millions and millions of iPods out there, but what happens to
> all the empty boxes? The packaging is pretty nice, and at this point, as
> iconic as the iPod itself. So in Maker spirit, here is a photo diary of
> HOW TO turn an empty iPod into a little robot-looking guy. Made with
> just the packaging materials, hot glue, and paint, it could be a fun
> project for kids.
> http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/10/how_to_make_a_robot_statue_fro.html
>
>
> ***Kid-Tested Haunted House Tricks
> Eric Wilhelm's Halloween Haunted House Controller project in Make 03
> explained how to build a multi-relay controller board that synchronizes
> lights, sounds, and other effects with soundtracks playing through
> Winamp on a laptop. This article describes some of the scare scenarios
> that Eric has staged using this controller, plus some other kid-tested
> tricks from haunted houses he's built.
> http://www.makezine.com/extras/27.html
>
>
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From douglas at paradise.net.nz Sun Oct 30 18:36:05 2005
From: douglas at paradise.net.nz (Douglas Bagnall)
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:36:05 +1300 (NZDT)
Subject: [Wellington-pm] digital arts miniconf, lca2006
Message-ID: <1130726165.43658315e8d26@www.paradise.net.nz>
hello,
While there will be no perl miniconf at Dunedin's LCA 2006, there is
going to be a digital arts miniconf. Unfortunately, I know this
because I am organising it. There is a webpage about it at
http://halo.gen.nz/lca2006/
If anyone is interested in the arts, or just sound and video, please
come along. If you're *really* interested (or merely interesting)
please consider talking.
douglas